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Andrew Hodges

Andrew Hodges

Andrew Hodges is a free-lance musician and teacher, with world-wide experience in group facilitation.  He is currently researching intuitive group improvisation in non-musicial situations.   Andrew trained as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music.  His professional career has been wide and various including having been Head of Music in a central London school,  global sales manager for an international corporate, joint-owner of a retreat centre (Le Cotil) in Normandy, world-wide sales skills trainer, Managing Director of his own business coaching company (AHA! Coaching) and partner in a personal development company (Entracte).

He currently works as a free-lance musician based in the Gloucestershire area where he is actively involved in a variety of musical activities including violin tuition, composition and arranging, facilitating group music improvisation workshops for schools and colleges, delivering business leadership programmes which employ the medium of music improvisation and is also writer, editor & businerss consultant for the www.soundtravels.co.uk website.  

Andrew welcomes anyone who wishes to express themselves through the medium of sound & music to join him in the improvisation events he facilitates.

For more information, please visit this authors web page.
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Debunking by Andrew Hodges
I found James d'Angelo's article refreshingly clear. It has been my view for quite some time that Chakras don't have absolute pitches attached to them. We are all different and if we see each other just as musical instruments then of necessity we are all different lengths and volumes. It is inevi...
Forum posts: General Discussions
Published: Tuesday 15 September, 2009
Reaction to Initial Rehearsals of My Latest Composition by Andrew Hodges
If I hadn't been heavily steeped in the improvising experience I think I might have had a very uncomfortable evening when my latest piece was placed in front of one orchestra I know and love. (I'll leave their name blank because what I have to say could apply to any band whatever their level of abil...
Forum posts: Composition
Published: Monday 13 July, 2009
Thoughts about the next Lifesound workshop by Andrew Hodges
My next Lifesound Workshop is on the 16th May and as we are now just a few days away the preparations for it are beginning to come to fruition. Recent research as part my PhD have begun to reveal some new approaches that can be taken with group intuitive improvisation and I am very keen to see ...
Forum posts: Improvisation
Published: Friday 08 May, 2009
Sitting Comfortably by Andrew Hodges
We often find ourselves sitting on the floor, possibly in front of a client or an audience of avid listeners, or in a yoga session leading a meditation wondering just how much should we be paying attention to what we’re doing and how much we are actually putting on the pins and needles in our ...
Forum posts: General Discussions
Published: Tuesday 28 April, 2009
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What's the Value of a Sound-Worker? by Andrew Hodges
As we mentioned in our last newsletter, Sustainability and Healing our much-abused Planet will be the over-riding theme for our Sound Community in the coming months. To add the debate you may have noticed a new article on the BBC website with the title "Cleaners 'worth more to society' than bankers...
Topic: General Discussion
Published: Wednesday 16 December, 2009
The Mystique of Chartres Cathedral by Andrew Hodges
see Susan Hales post: http://www.soundtravels.co.uk/singing-chartres-catherdral-fa-65.html
Topic: General Discussion
Published: Friday 27 November, 2009
Improvisational Worlds by Andrew Hodges
This short article describes how the potential of music improvisation might offer an effective route for the progressive development of improvisation within a team, class or group and highlights how the relationship between creative and group dynamics can be used to illustrate improvisational stages...
Topic: Improvisation
Published: Wednesday 25 March, 2009
The TROUBLE WITH IMPROVISATION Part 2 of Just Firefighting by Andrew Hodges
There is a major problem with improvisation as a metaphor because musicians and composers are unable to agree what improvisation is. In some arts circles improvisation is even regarded with some suspicion. Not only that, musical and theatrical performance are coloured by the same characteristics ...
Topic: Improvisation
Published: Tuesday 17 March, 2009
Just Firefighting? by Andrew Hodges
One or two people may know that whilst I can turn my hand to a decent bit of violin improvisation I spend a considerable amount of time working with the business community developing business teams.
Topic: Improvisation
Published: Monday 07 July, 2008
The Magic of Group Free Intuitive Music Improvisation by Andrew Hodges
There are many different interpretations of the meaning of music improvisation. For many, when music improvisation is mentioned, jazz or Indian music may be brought to mind. Others may have experienced music improvisation through music therapy.
Topic: Improvisation
Published: Wednesday 10 October, 2007
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